Everyone making SaaS on LLMs, including coding assistants like Cody and Copilot, was rocked by the AI news events of last week. None of it is news per se. But last week, two events at Google highlighted something crazy big brewing for about 10 weeks that’s been flying under everyone’s…

A short story by Steve Yegge Note, 2021: I wrote this story some years back, more or less as a 30-year-belated make-up assignment for a bad short story I wrote in high school. I don’t 100% trust Google not to lose the story by shutting down the site, so I’m…

God dammit, I didn’t want to blog again. I have so much stuff to do. Blogging takes time and energy and creativity that I could be putting to good use: my novels, my music, my game, and so on. But you get me riled enough, and I have to blog. …

Saying Goodbye to the Best Gig I Ever Had Friday was my last day at Grab, and I wanted to give a quick retrospective, plus tell folks what I’m up to. I didn’t get a chance to say a proper goodbye to so many folks in Southeast Asia, due to…

Big Fat Disclaimer: I DO NOT SPEAK FOR GRAB. I work there, but these are my own opinions. Not Grab’s. It’s now been 15 months since I joined Grab, the ride-hailing and financial services Super App giant of Southeast Asia. The time has gone by so fast. I’m on a…

I’ve never before been inspired to write an essay about a piece of music. This is a first for me; we’ll see how it goes. Update, April 2020: I did eventually record my special version of it — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK244wAQ3Qo — enjoy! You know that feeling when you find a new…

The right — and wrong — way to compete with a locked market — This is the story of the first time Jeff Bezos got something spectacularly wrong. It’s the story of why he was wrong, what happened afterward, and what we can learn from it. It’s also the story of how Jack Ma tackled exactly the same problem a few years later, and…

Note: I do not speak for my employer, Grab. These thoughts and opinions are solely my own. Ten years ago I published a blog post titled, “Get that job at Google”. …

Who will steal Android from Google? Disclaimers: These are my own personal opinions. A lot of them are probably wrong. I do not speak for my employer (Grab!). Take all this with a healthy grain of salt. In fact, don’t even read it. Here I am, writing a Medium post…